management
Posted Jan 21Head of Hardware Design
at Flux
On-site
Responsibilities
- Define best practices, guardrails, and evaluation harnesses; curate datasets; review AI‑generated designs; create the AI expertise that will help more people build successful hardware on their first production run, without releasing the magic smoke. - Build out the Hardware Design function – Start as a hands‑on manager with two existing reports.
- Champion the user’s voice in cross‑functional forums.
Requirements
- WHY FLUX Flux is taking the hard out of hardware, by developing the first AI Hardware Engineer.
- Our goal is to democratize the ability to create bleeding edge hardware, and revolutionize how electronics are designed and built around the world.
- You’ll steer the evolution of our ECAD tool's core capabilities as well as the correctness of our AI Hardware Engineer's system knowledge and design approach.
- You'll actively partner with product leadership to shape and prioritize AI capability development, evaluation frameworks, and in developing scaled approaches to guide our community to successful PCB projects.
- experience building complex electronics that shipped at scale (e.g., smartphones, wearables, high‑performance compute, networking, robotics) and loves translating real‑world engineering constraints into powerful tools and AI behaviors.
- Co-author specs, validate by running dogfooding initiatives, beta programs, and scaled user feedback. - Be the design partner to AI/ML – Teach the world’s first AI hardware engineer how to design successful products.
- WHAT YOU’LL BRING - Deep EE breadth + depth with real products in the field.
- - High‑speed digital: DDRx, PCIe/SerDes, USB‑C/USB4, MIPI, Ethernet (1G–25G+); timing, skew, and equalization considerations.
- experience with simulation tools (SPICE, SI/PI such as ADS/HyperLynx/SIwave; 3D EM such as HFSS), plus lab instrumentation (oscilloscope, VNA, logic analyzer, power analyzer). - Product sense & communication: ability to turn messy user needs into simple workflows; excellent written specs, diagrams, and presentations; confident with senior leadership and deep‑dive technical reviews. - Leadership at multiple altitudes: thrive as both a hands‑on engineer and a manager; co-develop core ECAD product strategy.
- Experience in a larger technical org (e.g., hardware product management or lead EE for critical subsystems at a world‑class company) with a track record of shipping at scale. - On the ground factory and test, mass production, and quality/yield optimization experience.
- responsibilities to realize designs at scale. - Prior design‑partner or customer‑facing role (product management, applications, FAEs, field engineering, or cross‑functional liaison) that turned feedback into product wins. - Hands‑on across ECAD platforms; passion for great engineering tools and workflows. - Practical exposure to AI/ML (prompting/evaluation, data curation/labeling, or integrating ML‑assisted design tools).
- HOW TO APPLY Send a your resume, a quick cover letter, and any links to public designs or talks.
- Email: hiring@flux.ai Subject: Head of Hardware Design – Your Name Flux is an equal opportunity employer.
Benefits
- Partner closely with our software engineering department in ensuring AI evaluations are reflective of real-world user requirements. - Product – Be the "voice of the customer" within the organization, addressing vision, strategy, research & discovery, prioritization and cross-functional leadership.
- BENEFITS & PACKAGE Competitive salary and meaningful equity, plus comprehensive benefits. Title/level will match experience and impact.
Additional details
- THE ROLE We’re looking for an experienced electrical engineering leader who will own the hardware design practices and guiding principles of our platform.
- In this role, you'll grow our existing Hardware Design function and team.
- This is a high‑impact, multidisciplinary role for someone who has
- WHAT YOU’LL DO - Drive ECAD feature design & specs – Craft product
- Instrument designs for SI/PI and power/thermal validation; close the loop with data. - Amplify user insight – Adopt ownership and improve upon current user
- experience signals, feedback loops, and channeling user input into our iterative product design.
- Strategically invest in deeper customer relationships.
- Comfortable spanning: - RF & wireless: from sub‑GHz to mmWave; matching, filtering, antenna/feed layout.
- - EMI/EMC & ESD: design‑for‑compliance, grounding/return paths, shielding, filtering.
- - Power electronics: DC‑DC (buck/boost), PMICs, PoE, motor/actuator control, power sequencing, efficiency/thermal trade‑offs.